Licensing resource series: h-node hardware directory

This is the second installment in the Free Software
Foundation's Licensing & Compliance Lab's series highlighting
licensing resources.

While our Respects Your Freedom hardware certification program
gets lots of attention from all the new fully free hardware being
certified, the FSF has actually had more resources on hardware for
quite some time. In the past, we maintained a list of hardware that
worked well with free software. But a few years back we made this into
a community run project, h-node.

Hardware listed on h-node doesn't come with FSF certification, but it
does come with the information users need to find out the extent to
which the hardware is supported by
fully free GNU/Linux distros. Members of the community can submit
entries to h-node whenever they get a chance to test it against one of
these free operating systems. By sharing this information, everyone
can help more users to make the switch to a fully free system by
making it easier to know what hardware already works perfectly with a
free system. Hackers looking to help increase support can also find
hardware with some remaining issues and direct their efforts there.

The directory covers a wide breadth of hardware, from basic components
like video cards to full laptops or towers, even peripherals like
printers and webcams. So whether you're looking to upgrade a current
computer, or buying a new one, h-node is a good resource to check
before spending your money. The directory even has information on
devices released quite long ago, so it can be useful for helping you
decide how to re-purpose older hardware. It of course also covers
recently released hardware, but it is only as up to date as its most
recent contributor makes it. As stated before, h-node is a resource
built by the community, so it depends on users like you stepping up to
help out. Here's how you can help:

Create an account on h-node.org to test and add your own
hardware to the directory. Or you can suggest features/bugfixes for
the site itself.